That is the same thing I did when installing. PC is a Dell Optiplex GX620, pentium 4 hyperthreading (prescott i assume).

Again, the installer detects the drives and pushes them at full speed just fine, even the DVD drive the installer runs from is on that sata controller.

I choose intel ICHx for chipset as well when insatlling, and also the voodoo kernel and also the seatbelt fix. That is all I choose to keep it simple, i can manually install other packages later.

Still no go